The Navajo Language Academy
2017 Summer Linguistics Workshop
Dates: July 10 – 28, 2017
Location: Diné College, Tsaile, Arizona
Registration: please email hooghanlani [at] gmail [dot] com.
To download the flyer, click here; to download the brochure, click here; and most importantly, to download the application/registration/waiver form, please click here!
Updated schedule:
Phonology (David Jason Harris)
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Week 1: Comparative Apache/Navajo (Willem de Reuse); Week 2: Language Acquisition (Melvatha Chee); Week 3: Tone and Tune from the North (Siri Tuttle)
10:15 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.
Semantics (Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten and Ted Fernald)
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Research and Technology (Leroy Morgan and Jasmine Spencer)*
2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
*Please brings your laptops and earphones.
Thank you and see you soon!
General information:
Navajo linguistics workshops include:
* Courses in different subfields of linguistics each year (syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology)
* A course in Navajo verb structure
* Classroom techniques for teaching verb forms
* An overview of linguistics and language documentation
* Colloquia by scholars
* Presentations and discussions of research in progress
* Discussions of language planning
* Time for collaborative research or lesson planning
The workshops are intended to serve:
* Navajo linguists
* Navajo language teachers
* Linguists with a research interest in Navajo or a related Athabaskan/Dene language
* Graduate and undergraduate students